CVE-2008-2702

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in ALTools ESTsoft ALFTP 4.1 beta 2 and 5.0 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a response to a LIST command, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

ESTsoft Alftp: 4.1-beta2, 5.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30559
http://vuln.sg/alftp41b2-en.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29585
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1763/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42900
http://secunia.com/advisories/30559
http://vuln.sg/alftp41b2-en.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29585
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1763/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42900

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